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2:30 AM ET, February 26, 2007

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The Oscar thread; Update: Goracle (almost) announces!  Update: Gore wins Oscar for Best Social Consciousness; Update: Scorsese wins  —  Tonight's the night Hollywood takes a break from disclaiming responsibility for any of the culture's ills to congratulate itself for having so much influence over the culture.
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Al Gore Takes Home the Statue!  —  Frankly, I'm thrilled but not surprised.  An Inconvenient Truth was a teriffic documentary, plus, let's face it, politics plays a role in the selection process.  Congrats, Al!  Here's a little video compilation of the Vice President's big night.  —  Download (1058) |
Think Progress:
VIDEO: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth Wins Best Documentary  —  Tonight, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.  Gore accepted the award, saying, "My fellow Americans, people all over the world — we need to solve the climate crisis.  It's not a political issue.
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Think Progress:
Al Gore's big announcement: »  —  the Oscars have gone green.  Find out more HERE and watch Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio make the announcement at tonight's Academy Awards:
Discussion: Samizdata.net and Liberal Values
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Seymour Hersh: Negroponte-Iran Contra—Funds-al Qaeda...Oh my!  —  Sy Hersh tells us that the echos of Iran Contra weighed heavily in Negroponte's decision to resign his post and is claiming that Bush is funneling money without authorization or oversight that has ended up in the hands of Sunni jihadist groups.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups  —  New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the "single most explosive" element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East …
Digby / Hullabaloo:   Rube Goldberg Policy Contraption by digby After...
Dirty Harry / LIBERTAS:
Live Blogging The Oscars  —  9:14 - The Departed wins Best Picture.  Worst of the nominees by far.  Good night all.  Thank you for the great comments.  It was fun watching your live-blogging.  —  9:13 - If there were any justice they would all be "Brad Grey Producer."  —  9:11 - I think this is it.
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Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:
Finke Wrap: Live-Blogging The Oscars  —  Erroll Morris' interviews of the nominees kicks off the show.  And it lays a huge egg.  The package is too inside.  And the TV viewing audience has no idea who most of these people are.  When, or when, is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences …
Discussion: Matt Welch and Texas Rainmaker
Washington Post:
Murtha Stumbles on Iraq Funding Curbs  —  Democrats Were Ill-Prepared for Unplanned Disclosure, Republican Attacks  —  The plan was bold: By tying President Bush's $100 billion war request to strict standards of troop safety and readiness, Democrats believed they could grab hold of Iraq war policy …
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Paul Mirengoff / News Bloggers Blog:
The limits of biography  —  If the stakes weren't so high, the efforts of Democrats to use combat veterans to push a defeatist foreign policy might be amusing.  In 2004, the vehicle was John Kerry.  Somehow, the Dems convinced themselves that his service in Vietnam would insulate him and the party …
New York Post:
ANGELINA A BABE AMID BRAINIACS  —  The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations is about to get a jolt of sex appeal.  —  The exclusive, Manhattan-based foreign-policy group has decided to admit actress Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador who has taken more than 30 trips worldwide …
Discussion: Hot Air and Lonewacko
New York Times:
Blast Kills 40 as Cleric Assails Baghdad Plan  —  A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives and ball bearings blew himself up at a Baghdad university today, killing at least 40 people and strewing fingers, pens, purses and bloody textbooks all over the ground.
Discussion: Decision '08
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
APPEAL FOR REDRESS: ASTROTURFING  —  This post originally appeared at MilBlogs in October, 2006.  While some of the information uncovered herein has since made it's way into smaller media outlets, most major mainstream media sources are still reporting this effort as a "grass roots" campaign.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and Riehl World View
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MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Feb. 25, 2007  —  Carl Levin, Dan Balz, Maureen Dowd, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Byron York  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: On October 11th, 2002, a majority of Democratic senators voted to give President Bush the authorization to go to war in Iraq.
Discussion: Blogcritics Section and MyDD
Faiz / Think Progress:
Levin: Last Congress Didn't Investigate Walter Reed Because 'They Did Not Want To Embarrass' Bush  —  On NBC's Meet the Press today, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) argued that the Senate Armed Services Committee did not conduct oversight of the treatment at military facilities in recent years because …
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Newsweek:   Forgotten Heroes  —  A Long Recovery: Gunnery Sgt. Kenneth Sargent …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Should News Entertain Or Inform — Or Both?  —  INDIO, California — It is the buzz up here at the Riverside County Fair, where I have been performing three shows a day in my other incarnation since Feb. 16.  It's the subject of conversation among entertainers, some of the people who have booths …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:   News Business is a Business  —  Austin Cline laments the fact …
New York Times:
In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants  —  Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
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David Roberts / The Huffington Post:   If You Can't Beat 'Em, Buy 'Em: TXU Gets an Offer from Green-Friendly Equity Funds
CBS News:
Iraqi President Falls Ill  —  Jalal Talabani, 73, Flown To Jordan For Medical Treatment  —  (CBS/AP) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Jordan late Sunday for medical treatment amid conflict reports about his health.  Sources in Amman and from Talabani's office in Baghdad told CBS News …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama on Iraq in 2002  —  He was right.  I was wrong.  This clip is impressive.
 
 
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
Media Alert  —  If four hours of Ellen DeGeneres and Al Gore sounds …
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Michael Portillo / Times of London:
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Discussion: Reuters and Discourse.net
Tina Kelley / New York Times:
Pole Dancing Parties Catch On in Book Club Country
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Nico / Think Progress:
Kristol: Bush 'Could Easily Build Political Support' For Iran Attack …
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